Salwa Nakkara

Jordan's inheritance culture under which women are pressured to relinquish their rights to property to male relatives.

Junction 48 is the love story of two young Palestinian hip-hop artists who use their music to fight against both the external oppression of Israeli society and the internal repression of their own crime-ridden, conservative community. It depicts a new generation of young Arabs who seek normality through their love and music - and against all odds. (imdb)

Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra. (imdb)

An impossible love story between two outsiders in Israeli society, Huda an Arab young woman and Alex a new immigrant from Russia. Huda is very much involved in Israeli society and works at a travel agency; Alex is a talented trumpet player who attracts Huda with his magical tunes. The two lovers have to face many obstacles, mainly Huda's objecting family and the political situation in Israel. (israelfilmcenter.org)

An IDF officer falls in love with a Palestinian widow in the West Bank of the 1980's. Tensions rise as their peers begin to react to their budding relationship.